Augustino and the Choir of Destruction
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My thanks to Francine Dumouchel and to Marie Couillard for their constant and solid support, and to Claude for his enormous confidence.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marie-Claire Blais is the internationally renowned author of more than twenty-five books. She is a three-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and has also been awarded the Athanase-David Prize, the Medicis Prize, the Molson Prize, the Writers’ Trust Matt Cohen Prize, and Guggenheim Fellowships. She lives in Quebec and Florida.
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
House of Anansi Press was founded in 1967 with a mandate to publish Canadian-authored books, a mandate that continues to this day even as the list has branched out to include internationally acclaimed thinkers and writers. The press immediately gained attention for significant titles by notable writers such as Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, George Grant, and Northrop Frye. Since then, Anansi’s commitment to finding, publishing and promoting challenging, excellent writing has won it tremendous acclaim and solid staying power. Today Anansi is Canada’s pre-eminent independent press, and home to nationally and internationally bestselling and acclaimed authors such as Gil Adamson, Margaret Atwood, Ken Babstock, Peter Behrens, Rawi Hage, Misha Glenny, Jim Harrison, A. L. Kennedy, Pasha Malla, Lisa Moore, A. F. Moritz, Eric Siblin, Karen Solie, and Ronald Wright. Anansi is also proud to publish the award-winning nonfiction series The CBC Massey Lectures. In 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011 Anansi was honoured by the Canadian Booksellers Association as “Publisher of the Year.”